State v. Tapia’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably State v. Ortiz (1977), State v. Gallegos (1989)
34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Heflin v. United States · Milanovich v. United States · United States v. Gaddis · State v. Tanton · Bettini v. City of Las Cruces
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A thief who holds on to the stolen property cannot violate the statute by receiving the stolen property because he cannot receive it from himself. This is established in Territory v. Graves, [ 17 N.M. 241 , 125 P. 604 (1912)]. Nor can the thief violate the statute by retaining the stolen property because larceny is a continuing offense. State v. Meeks, 25 N.M. 231 , 180 P. 295 (1919). The thief's retention, as opposed to retention by a `fence,' is a continuation of his larceny. The thief's disposition, however, is action separate from the larceny. State v. Mitchell, 86 N.M. 343 , 524 P.2d 206 (Ct. App.1974). It is neither absurd nor unreasonable to hold that the thief violates [the receiving stolen property statute] when he disposes of the property he stole."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the statute applies to a thief who disposes of stolen property is consistent with that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to inhibit the movement and disposition of stolen property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.